loathfulness en · NOUN
Etymology
From loathful + -ness.
Meanings
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(rare, uncountable) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
Proteus […] reading it with inward loathfulnesse, / Was grieved to restore the pledge he did possesse.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: